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Past exam of the perturbation methods and applied complex variables course of the University of Oxford 2009 A 3 iii Solution by
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In the overlap region , write . The supplied Airy function asymptotics giveThe outer prefactor tends to one in this overlap. ThereforeThe recessive condition gives and . Hence the leading inner answer isAway from the turning point, the matched WKB approximation isA useful multiplicative composite expansion through the turning region is : it is finite and normalized at zero and matches the displayed outer expression for fixed positive . It is a small- approximation across the turning point, not a claim of relative uniform accuracy out to arbitrarily large .
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